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New 'Looney Tunables' Linux bug gives root on major distros (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] Veticia@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wonder if this could be used to root previously unrootable Android based devices.

[–] loics2@lemm.ee 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Android doesn't use glibc, but Bionic, a C standard library developed by Google. So I don't think this vulnerability affects Android.

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What the heck. I thought, they were using musl.
Certainly seems like this has rather similar goals to musl...

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's no reason for Google not to reinvent the wheel....

They did the same with dalvik and ART now. JVMs, but more googlier!

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

And Quic, and Pony express, and GFS...

[–] allywilson@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago

Think Android uses Bionic instead of glibc (where the vulnerability is being exploited).

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wonder if musl is fine. If so,Void people are certainly having fun now.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A new Linux vulnerability known as 'Looney Tunables' enables local attackers to gain root privileges by exploiting a buffer overflow weakness in the GNU C Library's ld.so dynamic loader.

It’s always memory management

[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s always memory management

No wonder everyone's crazy about Rust.

[–] greybeard@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's certainly why it is being used to build browsers and OSs now. Those are places were memory management problems are a huge problem. It probably doesn't make sense for every match 3 game to be made in Rust, but when errors cause massive breaches or death, it's a lot safer than C++, taking human faulability into account.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

What makes rust so resiliant against these types of atacks?